Osaki OSOL is a men's Handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club based in Miyoshi, Saitama

Miyoshi, Saitama

is a town located in Iruma District, Saitama, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 36,587 and a density of 2,391.31 persons per km². The total area is 15.30 km².-External links:*...

, Japan

Japan

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. It plays in the Japan Handball League

Japan Handball League

The , is the top non-professional handball league in Japan.-Clubs for men:-Clubs for women:...

 (JHL), Japan's top-flight league. It is a nonprofessional club owned by Osaki Electric Co. Ltd.. Osol means "the core of the earth" in Italian

Italian language

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Club history

Osaki OSOL handball team was founded in 1960. They won the JHL title once, the All Japan Open Championship title nine times, the All Japan Non-Professional Championship 13 times, and the National Sports Festival of Japan

National Sports Festival of Japan

is the national premier sports event of Japan. The abbreviated name is Kokutai . The 65th National Sports Festival of Japan was held in October 2010 in Chiba Prefecture.- Emperor's Cup and Empress Cup Champions :...

 title 14 times. (As of August 2007)

Current squad

As of August 2007

• 1 GK Katsuyuki Urawa
• 2 CP Kenji Toyoda
• 3 CP Yusei Kato
• 4 CP Seiichi Maeda
• 5 CP Yoshio Nakagawa
  Yoshio Nakagawa
  is a Japanese politician of the Sunrise Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Hiroo District, Hokkaidō and dropout of Kanagawa University, he was elected to the House of Councillors as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party for the first time in 1998...
  
  
• 6 CP Yoshihiko Sato
• 7 CP Hideaki Nagashima
• 8 CP Masanori Iwamoto
• 9 CP Akihiro Morimoto
• 10 CP Yoshibumi Ohta
• 11 CP Toshiki Sakai
• 12 GK Yasushi Hamaguchi
• 14 CP Sho Iwanaga
• 15 CP Shunsuke Azuma
• 16 GK Hidehisa Ishihara
• 17 CP Yoshihiko Akiyama
• 18 CP Takeshi Uchida
• 19 CP Masakatu Izuma
• 20 CP Kotaro Mochizuki
• 21 CP Daisuke Miyazaki
  Daisuke Miyazaki
  is a Japanese handball player. He played for BM Alcobendas in 09/10 season, currently plays for Osaki Osol.He has competed in Pro Sportsman No. 1 five times. He has won three times in 2006, 2008 and 2009. He came close in 2007, resulting in 4th place, with Paul Terek as the winner, and in 2010 he...